Find safety in your own skin and authenticity in all your connections.
Building a stronger connection to your body, self, and community are the main agents of change in any healing work. That is why I chose the name Connected.
My philosophy
Connection is the link between you and everything you relate to, and it is often the first thing to be cut when we experience trauma. Which makes connection a powerful antidote when we are healing from trauma, especially childhood trauma and codependency (my specialties).
These experiences leave you feeling incredibly isolated. And we do not heal in isolation. We heal in connection with ourselves, our body, our community, and nature.
Therapy and coaching spaces are often the point of connection that opens up all the others. Once you learn how to be in relationship with the space and yourself again, finding ways to connect to resources, healing practices, and community comes more naturally.
When we’re struggling with the aftermath of trauma and codependency, our nervous systems cut us off from so many different connections as a self protective measure and it leaves us feeling isolated and makes the problem worse.
My practice is curated to help you change that. To help you learn how to move emotions through your body, create space to get to know yourself on a deep level, and find ways to heal that are unique to your brain, nervous system, and experience of the world.
You’re probably here because talk therapy has served you, and is also leaving you feeling stuck. This space is for you to experience real healing, rather than feeling like you are talking in circles.
At Connected Psychotherapy and Coaching, we co-create a body-based space for you to heal and grow. For you to release the symptoms trauma and codependency left you with, and move into authenticity and healthy interdependence.
I help you do this through these different offerings: Individual therapy, Couples/relationship therapy, and Somatic coaching.
Who I am as a person
I know for a lot of folks looking into working with me, your existence is political. I want you to know that I understand that on a deep level and do not support the current political administration. I practice social justice regularly, and am consistently working on decolonizing my language, practice, and life. I believe that all healing work is innately political and if you’d like to learn more about my political stance, you can listen to my podcast - Healing on the Fringe, or follow me on social media.
I am a queer and neurodivergent cis-gender woman (she/her) who is passionate about working with the communities I am a part of. I identify as pansexual/bisexual. I sit in the middle of that sexual orientation, which to me means, I experience fairly equal attraction to all genders. Some influenced by their gender expression (bisexual) and some influenced by who they are as a human (pansexual).
My neurodivergent flavor is ADHD with a reading/comprehension learning disability. My queerness expresses itself in the way that I practice social justice, and choose to engage with different life structures than most. I am always in practice with challenging what is “normal” to find what works best for me and the people I love in my life.
Education & Training
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Applied Psychology - Antioch University (2016)
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Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology - Antioch University (2018)
Echo Parenting Conference: Social & Historical Trauma (2017)
Somatic Psychotherapy Certificate - The Body Knows, Wendy Elliot (2020)
Somatic EMDR (Natural Processing) Level 1 - Craig Penner (2025)
Anti-racisim & diversity work through community spaces
*All somatic trainings are from a trauma lens
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Fun facts
Outside of my worklife, I am a passionate person who loves being creative and connecting with people. I love being outside in nature, making fun coffee drinks, blending my own herbal tea, making tinctures, writing poetry, reading tarot, practicing witchcraft, reading books, discovering funky clothes and jewelry, and finding new ways to express my authenticity.
I am mama to my daughter, and wife to my partner of 13+ years. I am someone who has a few deep, close friendships, rather than a ton of friends that are not as deep. I relate to people differently than most, hence my celebration of and practice working with non-traditional folks and relationships structures.
